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We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. Following their early release from Russian prisons, two members of punk protest band Pussy Riot have met up in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. They are vowing to continue campaigning for human rights. Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were due to be released in March, but instead walked free on Monday after they were granted amnesty by Russian authorities.

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The third member of the band to be charged was given a suspended sentence. Or at least those political prisoners well known in the West. Just a few days earlier, for instance, Mikhail Khodorkovsky had been freed by Putin after more than 10 years in prison. Even though the charges against him were bogus, there were people, and not just in Russia, who thought he was only getting what was coming to him. But Pussy Riot? Not only had their prosecution been unjust, but they were young and attractive and intelligent and fearless. After they were released, Amnesty International invited them to New York and set about making sure their voices were heard by as wide an audience as possible.

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CNN -- The U. Meanwhile, Russian media suggested a Russian athlete in the Sochi Games may have been sporting an image supporting Pussy Riot on his snowboard Thursday in what could be the Olympics' first protest. In the diplomatic dispute, Samantha Power, the U.

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